all the things i love have come together:
a) my writing’s been published!
b) atlas obscura!
c) shelly duvall!
d) halloween in mpls!
cheers to all, and thanks for celebrating with me. burn a red candle in my honor.
after your reading, please prepare to respond to the following questions:
1. In the film, Calvin and Hobbes actually reversed many personality traits as Jack and Tyler. Is it possible that Calvin is the personality that got repressed and Hobbes is the one that did the “growing up”? Discuss.
2. Tyler wears a fur coat near the end of the movie. What is the significance of this garment, given his past incarnation as a jungle animal? Discuss.
3. If Calvin really wanted to change things, why didn’t he just dust off his old cardboard-box time machine and hop in? Discuss.
4. After the end of Fight Club, when Calvin realizes he’s effectively killed Hobbes twice now, do you really think he’ll still be “okay”? Discuss.
“She has really great eye makeup,” said Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, a longtime [Donatella] Versace fan.
“Getting hideously drunk at a dinner party and embarrassing yourself is certainly nothing new. As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named ‘Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette’ insisted that local officials use the following letter template (dated 856) when sending apologies to offended dinner hosts. The guilty party would copy the template text, enter the dinner host’s name, sign the letter and then deliver with head bowed. The letter was discovered, alongside thousands of other documents, in a sealed cave library in western China. To read more - and I suggest you do - visit the incredible International Dunhuang Project.
The entire scroll, filled with Form Letters adapted for various situations, can be seen here.”
Yesterday, having drunk too much, I was intoxicated as to pass all bounds; but none of the rude and coarse language I used was uttered in a conscious state. The next morning, after hearing others speak on the subject, I realised what had happened, whereupon I was overwhelmed with confusion and ready to sink into the earth with shame.
—from Letters of Note (10.16.2009)
“Her patent, said Fred Amran, a professor of creativity at the University of Minnesota […]”
wait. wait… what?
“a professor of creativity”
one more time.
“a professor of creativity”
that means there’s more than one professor of creativity!
eight (8) 15” x 22 1/2” sheets of tempered glass @ ten (10) dollars ($)
jesus is my episco-pal lol get it?
“In one of the rooms, there is an enormous refrigerator, filled with brains packed away in hundreds of plastic containers. Nearby is a tray with small piles of brain slices. They look just like the ginger shavings that come with an order of sushi.”
this one’s for you, zombie pub crawl.
